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Secure Flight: Home Land Security Watch List

Secure flight is the Transportation Security Administrations(TSA)follow
up to CAPPS. (CAPPS stands for Computer Assisted Passenger
Pre-Screening.) CAPPS system to match airplane passengers to a
terrorist watch list. A more complicated system, CAPPS-II, was proposed
last year but public outcry over the invasiveness of the system caused
it to be cancelled. Secure Flight is the new system being used to
update CAPPS.